Improvement in stencil-plates



s. W. mnsn. I I STENCIL-PLATE. No.173,058. Patent,-ed,Fe.b.1,1876.

N. PETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D c UNITED STATES SAMUEL W. REESE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN STENCIL-PLATES.

Specification forming part of- Letters Patent No. 173.058, dated February 1, 1876; application filed December 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Figurel is a perspective view of a markingplate composed of several stencil-plates joined together. Fig. 2 is a similar view of portions of the same detached. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same at a; w.

In the drawing, A represents a stencil-plate having cut in it a letter character, in the usual manner. The right-hand edge is turned over upon itself, and then again forward, forming a we agfor the left-hand edge 2, which is flanged up to egter it anH for tlie'purposeof bead is pressed or otherwisefoi'hied"ihtosaid edges.

The upper corner of the forwardly-turned edge a is cut away, which facilitates the joining of the separate plates, as the flange b will I meet and enter the grooyeg with more easg.

What I claim as my invention is The stencil-plate A, having the bead-shaped groove a at one end, and the bead-shaped flange b at the other, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL W. REESE.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Lo'rz, HENRY WARD.

PATENT OFFICE; 

